The Heroes of Light

[eternitynpc]

Who: All player characters
When: August 25th
Where: The Imperial Castle
What: The dinner with the empress to which all outworlders and native OCs were invited.
Warnings/Notes: N/A

Comments

[alborada]

[ Sylvarie can’t stop herself from smiling softly—not mockingly, nor disbelieving, but one of a certain sadness that has always seemed to have had her in its grasp. The trip here had made it more difficult to conceal, and with this revelation why bother hiding it now? ]

Forgive me if I am blunt and out of place Your Majesty, but we have an unknown party attempting the summoning of the Lord of Eidolons with knowledge that was seemingly lost long ago. I believe the time for ‘unreasonable’ has passed.

[ Glancing to the outworlders sitting at the table, she continued. ] Isn’t it... ‘unreasonable’ enough that the next generation of Heroes of Light sit with us? And some even say they fought alongside the Four.

[eternitynpc]

I believe in reincarnation.

I believe if some of the heroes who fought the Goddess of Death died when fighting her, then surely they are reborn and amongst us today. And where else would fate have them, but pited against her forces once more? [A pause] Of course, it is better for you to hope I am wrong. For if I am right, then this means surely the Goddess herself is born anew, too.

[alborada]

[ There it was, one of the things Sylvarie had been most afraid of since witnessing that dream with some of the self-proclaimed Heroes. Her stomach twists with familiar dread, thinking about the woman they encountered, the one others claimed had been the Goddess of Death. What if she really had followed them from the Dream Width somehow.

The Empress was right, the theory did seem unreasonable—but she remembered the statues, glancing quickly out of the corner of her eye toward Lean. ]

With such a theory, then one of us could be a former Hero.